Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 3
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 219
Top rated on Nintendo Switch
- 01IkarugaIkaruga builds enormous complexity out of one binary mechanic and demands absolute cognitive presence, proving that mec…9.7Outstanding
- 02Persona 5 RoyalPersona 5 Royal refines an already exceptional JRPG to an unassailable standard, blending deep social simulation with s…9.7Outstanding
- 03UndertaleUndertale is a foundational critique of the RPG genre itself, one that weaponizes player choice to deliver an unforgett…9.7Outstanding
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
Adventure gameA music curator's debut game is remarkably polished. Sheepy delivers an atmospherically confident hour of platforming — free on Steam, with a Switch v...Great8.1Freshly Frosted
Puzzle gameFreshly Frosted takes the automation genre's spreadsheet-brain appeal, strips out every ounce of stress, and frosts what's left in pastel. It's short ...Good7.3Kill It With Fire
Action gameCasey Donnellan's spider-hunting sandbox is a one-joke game that tells its one joke well — a tight, physics-drunk few hours whose design is genuinely ...Good7.1Please, Fix The Road
Simulation gameA solo-developed puzzler with a genuinely distinct idea — rebuilding the world itself rather than just placing tiles — undermined by an uneven difficu...Mixed6.2Sunshine Shuffle
Casual gameStrange Scaffold's houseboat card night wraps a small, sharp, genuinely moving script around a poker engine that never rises above functional. The wri...Mixed6.0Nidhogg 2
Action gameMesshof built a sharper, deeper duel than the 2014 original — then dressed it in a fleshy hand-drawn grotesquerie that half its audience actively rese...Mixed6.5Pupperazzi
Action gameSundae Month built one of the most disarming worlds in indie games and then bolted a job to it. When Pupperazzi lets you wander and shoot, it's magic;...Mixed6.0Mika and the Witch's Mountain
Action gameMika and the Witch's Mountain has one of the most genuinely joyful flight systems in the cozy-game space, wrapped in a few hours of fetch quests that ...Mixed6.1
Blue Wednesday
Adventure gameBuff Studio has written one of the most honest games about creative burnout around, wrapped it in a genuinely excellent original jazz score, and then ...Mixed6.8Paradise Marsh
Action gameA solo-developed mood piece with real writing and a gorgeous score, undermined by a thin loop and procedural terrain that flattens its own atmosphere ...Mixed6.3TEVI
Action gameTEVI is one of the more mechanically ambitious metroidvanias in recent memory and one of the more exhausting — a sharp fusion of melee combo fighting ...Good7.7Squeakross: Home Squeak Home
Casual gameAlblune took the most mechanically pure puzzle genre in games and bolted a dollhouse to it — and the dollhouse is what makes the puzzles matter. It's ...Good7.8Tempopo
Casual gameWitch Beam has built a programming puzzler that runs on rhythm instead of logic gates — tactile, generous, and well-crafted, but a system with a ceili...Good7.5Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip
Adventure gamesnekflat has built a confidently designed small open world — a dense, funny, endlessly climbable seaside town that rewards stray impulses. It ends soo...Good7.3Tetrobot & Co.
Casual gameSwing Swing Submarine built an entire puzzle game on a single mechanic — swallow a block, spit it out — and wrung a remarkable amount of invention out...Good7.5Arcaea
Music gamelowiro built one of the most mechanically inventive rhythm games on mobile by dragging the genre off its flat plane and into the air, then wrapped it ...Good7.7Yes, Your Grace
Adventure gameA brutally honest little kingdom sim that understands something most strategy games refuse to admit — governing is mostly deciding which of your peopl...Good7.8Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Adventure gameUrban Myth Dissolution Center is a strikingly original occult adventure with real writing chops, held back by deduction puzzles that never bite. Solid...Good7.3APICO
Simulation gameAPICO takes the Forestry-mod DNA of genetics-driven bee breeding, strips out the punishment, and wraps it in a pixel-art conservation story that respe...Good7.2Absolute Drift
Action gameAbsolute Drift is a study in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened hard, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. Its punishing onboardin...Good7.8Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Action gameSnoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is very funny and tightly built, but thin where it counts and over almost as soon as it finds its ...Good7.1Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
Adventure gameSilver Lining Studio's painted vignette is an emotionally efficient game — it earns its ending honestly, and the ending lands. Go in knowing you're bu...Good7.1Papetura
Adventure gamePapetura is a game where the medium is the argument — every set was physically cut, folded and glued by one person before a camera ever touched it, ...Good7.7Toki Tori 2+
Adventure gameToki Tori 2+ strips the puzzle-platformer down to two verbs — whistle and stomp — and builds one of the genre's most quietly radical designs on top of...Good7.3
